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cherit 's review for:
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
"It may be something in his charismatic, enigmatic personality, some intangible quality or power that no one has yet been able to isolate and identify. It may be something he learned from others. Whatever it is, I believe Manson has full knowledge of the formula he used (to get the Family members to murder for him, without remorse). And it worries me that we do not. For the frightening legacy of the Manson case is that it could happen again.
I believe Charles Manson is unique. He is certainly one of the most fascinating criminals in American history, and it appears unlikely that there will ever be another mass murderer quite like him. But it doe not take a prophet to see at least some of the potentials of his madness in the world today. Whenever people unquestioningly turn over their minds to authoritarian figures to do with as they please - whether it be in a satanic cult or some of the more fanatic offshoots of the Jesus Movement, in the right wing or the far left, or in the mind-bending cults of the new sensitivity - those potentials exist. One hopes that none of these groups will spawn other Charles Mansons. But it would be naive to suggest that that chilling possibility does not exist."